Patrick Havens on August 10th, 2008

The Olympics is one of those places where all politics stop and amazing events are the rule of the day.  I was perusing the USA Team blogs (yes they have them, and its pretty cool) and ran across this blurb:
…George W. Bush holds up the American Flag the right way after wife Laura Bush instructed [...]

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Patrick Havens on July 15th, 2008

WordPress version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, [...]

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Patrick Havens on January 7th, 2008

When one thinks of a blog now-a-days generally one thinks of news or entertaining articles. But they were started as sort of an online diary. Well I just ran across a blog of a more classic sort. The relative of a English Soldier in the trenches of WWI has taken his grandfather’s [...]

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Patrick Havens on December 13th, 2007

Alex King has written a number of plugins, including ones used on this site. So it was with interest I read about his latest contract project for Yahoo.? He was asked to help code a plugin to integrate a number of Yahoo’s services in WordPress with a plugin called Yahoo Shortcut’s.
The examples he gave [...]

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